COMPETITION"PRINTED IMAGE"

In 1997 the competition "Printed Image", founded by the company DOMINO as the part of the , was held for the first time.

Russian printing companies participated to the competition, and their ideas in design and production quality were evaluated. The goal was to make known the works of the best Russian printing companies. HEIDELBERG CIS was the sponsor of the competition.

On the first competition, all the works (about 40) presented were evaluated in the only nomination.
The catalog "Printing Services of LINIA GRAPHIC" took the first place. NFQ2Print and MST Ltd (Saint-Petersburg) shared the second place. DOMINO took the third place for the Annual Report of the Company ATON and for the brochure "Moscow Plant of Special Alloys" (two our works wan the final participant diploma).

In 1998, the competition was held for the second time, and the participants competed with each other in the four nominations as follows:
1) Poster;
2) Brochure;
3) Annual Report, Catalog;
4) Calendar.

Some 80 works were presented on the competition. NFQ2Print took all the first awards except the nomination “Brochure” (no first awards in this nomination).
LINIA GRAPHIC took the second place in the following nominations: “Poster”, “Annual Report”, “Calendar”, as ALFA-DESIGN took the second place in the nomination “Brochure”.The third award was given to LINIA GRAPHIC in the nominations “Annual Report” and “Catalog”, to NFQ2Print in the nomination “Catalog”, and to DOMINO in the nominations “Poster” and “Brochure”.

The Festival and Competition (in 9 nominations this time) are expected to take place in this year. We hope on more participants and on better works. By the way, after our competition, some new alternative competitions reminding ours have appeared, but we do not know much about them, because their results have not been published.